Laura Potter 

My body & soul

VV Brown, 25, singer/songwriter on sleep, fad diets and having a good sex life
  
  

Singer VV Brown photographed in Shepherds Bush, West London
Singer VV Brown photographed in Shepherds Bush, West London. Photograph: Richard Saker Photograph: Richard Saker

Are you healthy? At the moment. I'm going to the gym, I've started a yoga class, I've got back into eating organic food, I've bought a juicer, and I'm growing vegetables.

How much sleep do you need? I can sleep for three hours and be fine, it's really weird. My boyfriend thinks I stay up all night doing chants over him or something. l've got a lot of things on my mind and I'm under a lot of pressure, so my thoughts are just constantly tick tock tick tock, and I find it hard to sleep.

Do you worry about your weight? I'm always on some diet, whether it be the cucumber diet or the Atkins, when everyone was doing it. I feel sexier when I'm a certain size; clothes hang better when you feel good. There's nothing worse than feeling podgy and you have to wear "that dress" and not feeling hot in it.

How much do you drink? I don't really drink. After two glasses of wine I'm paralytic. I've found a new love of margaritas, but a couple of those and I'm stripping naked.

Attitude to smoking? I don't smoke cigarettes. I did for a little while, just to try it, but it makes you feel really dirty – your whole insides just feel really disgusting, your clothes start to smell, your hands start to get dirty. It's quite hot, though, kissing a man with a tinge of cigarette on his lips.

Attitude to drugs? I'm not going to lie: I don't think weed is that bad, but if you become addicted to it, just like if you become addicted to alcohol or any of those things, it can open the door to harder drugs once you don't get that euphoric feeling any more. Go out with your friends and find other things that can make you feel euphoric – have sex!

Are you happy? Recently I've become very content. I get very big highs and extremely low lows, and I get really depressed. I don't know if it's the nature of this business – it takes you on this emotional roller-coaster ride and your career is in the hands of subjective opinions, so you're vulnerable. Recently I started to see a therapist, and that has really helped. People look down on therapy, but it's great to have someone to talk to that isn't close to you.

Is sex important to you? It's healthy to have a good sex life within a loving relationship, because it releases a lot of energy, and that spiritual connection is really important – but sex can be damaging if it doesn't happen in the right circumstances.★


VV Brown features on War Child's first single, "I Got Soul", out on 19 October

 

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